Abstract

Brief reports of meetings for the year, including a special general meeting to consider recommendation for alterations of rules. At the April meeting an additional note on stones used by the Aborigines by Mr H. Stuart Doce was read in which he described two types of "hammer" or "pounding" stones, of which he had found specimens in coastal sand dunes, and inland on the River Mersey, on the North-West Coast of Tasmania. The business of the June meeting was a discussion of the supposed former land connects of Antarctica with Australasia and South America.

In 1843 the Horticultural and Botanical Society of Van Diemen's Land was founded and became the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land for Horticulture, Botany, and the Advancement of Science in 1844. In 1855 its name changed to Royal Society of Tasmania for Horticulture, Botany, and the Advancement of Science. In 1911 the name was shortened to Royal Society of Tasmania.